Renewing Your Identification Card

DMV will mail you a renewal application prior to the expiration date of your ID card. To receive your renewal application on time,
be sure to update your address with DMV. You may renew your ID card as early as
six months prior to the expiration date on your current ID.

Your renewed Virginia ID card will expire at the end of the month in which you were born. It normally will be valid for five
years and will expire when you reach an age divisible by five; e.g. 20, 25, 30, etc.

The cost to renew your identification card is $10.00.

ID Card Renewal Exceptions

If you are authorized to be in the U.S. temporarily and have been issued a limited duration ID card,
the ID cannot be renewed. A subsequent ID will be processed as
an original ID card, and proof of
legal presence is required. You will not be eligible to
receive a limited duration ID card, or permit if your authorized stay in the U.S. is less than 30
days from the date of your application.

If you hold a license of any kind, issued by any state within the United States, you are not eligible
for an ID card unless you surrender the license. If you currently hold both a driver's license and
ID card, you must surrender your driver's license before you can renew your ID card.

Renewing Online

Every other cycle, you may renew your identification card online and save $1 UNLESS:

Your last ID card renewal was not completed at a customer service center.

Renewing at a Customer Service Center

Note: If you are eligible to renew your ID card online or by mail but decide to renew
at a customer service center, you will
be charged an additional $5 fee. The fee will not apply if the renewal is accompanied by a
transaction that must be done in person.

Complete the Driver's License and Identification Card Application
(DL1P) either before or after coming to a DMV office. You
may use this form to notify DMV of a name or address
change, to apply to register to vote, or to change your
voter registration address.

Present proof of legal presence (if your current ID card
has expired or if you are
holding a limited duration ID card).

Present your current ID card.

Have a new photo taken.

Pay the fee. You may pay your renewal fee with cash, money order, check, check card or major
credit card.